Advancing sustainable lifestyles

Advancing sustainable lifestyles

Sustainability starts at home: our home appliances improve lifestyles with innovative and resource-saving functions and promote sustainable growth. In order to further advance sustainable lifestyles, we call on the European regulators to work with us to ensure increased consumer choice to make all lifestyles sustainable, and turn the energy efficiency potential of our appliances into real energy savings.

Living the connected home

Living the connected home

The home appliance industry is a forward-thinking sector, that is continuously investing in Research & Development to find innovative ways to respond to the challenge of designing connected, smart and state-of-the-art appliances that will make European homes more comfortable and sustainable. The sector needs a supportive, policy-friendly environment that includes a Connected Appliances Platform - as part of the EU Digital Single Market - to discuss trends and market uptake with industry and to prepare the ground for connected homes with clear, consistent policy and infrastructure.

Accelerating Europe’s growth

Accelerating Europe’s growth

European economic growth and competitiveness depends on a free, balanced, open and fair trading system, both within the European Single Market and for imports/exports with third countries. We therefore support an EU strategy that focuses on keeping markets open and trade flowing.

There is not a single way of a lifestyle that could be applicable in the households of 7 billion people. What governments would need to focus on instead is the penetration of basic goods everywhere. This is how with comparing fridges from real homes around the world, the Director General of APPLiA, Paolo Falcioni started his speech at the United Nations’ Science-Policy-Business Forum.

Only a couple of years ago, the “circular economy” model was unknown to anybody, at least as a term. This week, over 600 experts within who different authorities, businesses, think-thanks and academics were queueing in front of the European Commission, resisting the wind, to listen, have a say or exchange ideas.

Slogans, such as « Change the system, not the climate » or « You prefer your planet blue or well-done? » helped the home appliance industry to see that manufacturers are not on their own in the mission of creating a Circular Culture. Read more how APPLiA's presence at an event about WEEE treatment standards gave us food for thought.

APPLiA Home Appliance Europe supports the European Commission’s work to examine options and actions for a more coherent product policy framework of the different strands of work related to circular economy, while preserving the single market, competition and innovation.

As from 1 January 2019, home appliance manufacturers in Europe, represented by APPLiA and beyond, are starting to distinctly mark certain large appliances containing F-Gases and Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIPs).

The Romanian government is planning to boost its citizens’ energy and water use at home by replacing around 60 000 washing machines, air conditioners, fridges and freezers with appliances scoring very high on the energy label.